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Is there anything more distasteful in sports than when a bunch 12-year-old kids are tainted by the corruption of adults and the resulting political pandering of elected officials and the race-baiting of Jesse...

ORLANDO, Fla. — It's a good thing the Bulls are coming back to Chicago. There might be a warrant out for their arrest in Florida after they stole a game from the Magic on Sunday.
"Let's face it," Pau Gasol said after the 98-97 victory. "We got...

Summary
The Magic choked this one away, allowing the Bulls to steal a 98-97 victory Sunday and finish 3-3 on their road trip. Orlando led 97-91 until Tobias Harris' clear-path foul on Jimmy Butler with 32 seconds to play. After Butler made both free...

Orlando Magic GM Rob Hennigan called a news conference Thursday to announce the firing of head coach Jacque Vaughn.
Here's hoping that next year at this time, the Magic aren't calling another news conference to announce the firing of Hennigan himself....

Trade winds have been blowing in the NBA for some time this season.
Magic GM Rob Hennigan is no stranger to making deals. The Magic could use a rim-protecting power forward (who couldn't?) and a go-to wing (Andrew Wiggins, we never knew ye).
Here's my assessment of the trade value of each Magic player before the Feb. 19 trade deadline:
C Nikola Vucevic: The East's best center is an untouchable double-double machine. Trade Vooch and you'd have a refund line stretching to Bithlo. I mean, unless a team...

Talk about your big breakthroughs.
There's Einstein's theory of relativity, Richard Petty inventing the wheel, the smallpox vacine and the NFL RedZone channel.
Here's another monumental breakthrough: The Magic have suddenly become an entertaining basketball team.
"Is it fun to watch?" Channing Frye said. "OK, then it's twice as much fun to play this way."
Just last week the Magic were largely unwatchable, unable to score in an open gym. Now they are a veritable video game. They have posted at...

Jameer Nelson never wanted to be an NBA nomad, but he likely has no clue where the closing chapters of his career will take him now.
After playing his first 10 NBA seasons in Orlando, the point guard finds himself on his second team within five months.
On Thursday, the Dallas Mavericks traded Nelson to the Boston Celtics in the Rajon Rondo deal.
Nelson always envisioned wearing No. 14 in Orlando until he retired.
Then Dwight Howard forced a trade in 2012, triggering a complete overhaul. Jameer...

The Magic faced the Philadelphia 76ers on Sunday night, and it was impossible to tell which team is tanking.
The Magic just wiped out the modest progress they had been making. They hit the low point of the season and in the Dwight Howard rebuild — no matter what happens the rest of the way:
76ers 96, Magic 88.
It was the Magic's sixth loss in their past seven games. More so, it was the kind of defeat — and at home, no less — that weighs heavy and starts conversations about coach...

As frustrating as it is to witness the Magic's rebuilding project, things could be worse. Much, much worse. To paraphrase an old W.C. Fields' barb…. all things considered, I wouldn't rather be in Philadelphia.
Orlando fans, just imagine if you had to watch The Walking Dead, aka the Philadelphia 76ers?
The Sixers have yet to win this season, heading into tonight's game against Dallas at 0-15. (The Mavs are slight favorites after edging the 76ers a few weeks ago by, oh, 53 points.)
When...

The Magic announced Tuesday that James Borrego will finish the season as interim coach, and I can't help but root for him.
He's Rudy and Rocky rolled into one. He's such a big underdog to permanently keep the job that even the ant trying to move that rubber tree plant feels for him.
No surprise that Borrego is a go. No reason to subject these players to another coaching change this season unless it's Bill Belichick.
With their next move, however, the Magic could well be making their most critical...